The so-called new criticism which followed after the new poetry which followed after the new developments in our Western world has most typically been engaged in explaining why works of art have no content and no subject matter. It was the new media themselves, from the telegraph (1830) onward which created the situation which the poets and painters tried to explain to us by “prophetic” new art forms. Is it not ludicrous that the very scientists who expected the radical changes should stand around with yammering and incoherent gesture while complaining of their inability to understand modern art?